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	<h2>Speaker</h2>
    
<h3>Ben  Keen</h3>
<blockquote><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Ben Keen.jpg" alt="Mark Richer" width="100" height="132" /></div>
  <p align="left"><strong>Chief Analyst, IHS Screen Digest</strong></p>
  <p align="left">    Ben Keen has been instrumental in building Screen Digest  into the world’s premiere research company focusing on the media and  entertainment space. Through Ben’s leadership, Screen Digest has become the  primary source of market analysis and strategic insight for many of the largest  communications corporations in the US,  Europe and Asia-Pacific. This leading position  was reinforced through the acquisition of the foremost US analyst  group in the field, Adams Media Research, which Ben now also directs.</p>
  <p align="left"> In late 2010, Screen Digest was acquired by IHS Inc.  along with the leading technology analyst firm iSuppli Corporation. Screen  Digest and iSuppli have formed a new business unit within IHS responsible for  tracking and analysing the entire TMT (technology, media and  telecommunications) value-chain. Ben has been appointed Senior Vice President  and Chief Analyst of the Media business unit within this combined operation.</p>
  <p align="left"> As Chief Analyst, Mr Keen directs all IHS Screen Digest’s  research and consultancy activities. He has overall responsibility for the  hundreds of major research reports published by the company since 1997 and the  ongoing continuous strategic Intelligence services supplied to more than 200  major clients, including Time Warner, Sony, ITV, Microsoft, NBC Universal, 20th  Century Fox, Nintendo, BBC, Vodafone, Philips, The Walt Disney Company,  Deutsche Telekom, Paramount Pictures, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Discovery  Networks, Kodak, BT, JP Morgan, MTV, and Apple.</p>
  <p align="left"> Under Ben’s management, Screen Digest has grown rapidly  from 13 specialist analysts in 2003 to over 50 in 2011.</p>
  <p align="left"> Renowned for his insight and vision, Ben is one of the  most sought-after speakers on the international conference circuit. He has  delivered over 500 presentations and lectures, including keynote addresses at  many international conventions. Additionally, he has contributed articles to  more than 20 different books, magazines and newspapers.</p>
  <p align="left"> As an internationally recognised expert in the media and  communications business, Ben’s services as a consultant and advisor are  constantly in demand. Since 1988, he has been retained as an advisor to the  British Screen Advisory Council, a government-industry liaison organisation  that counts the elite of the UK  media management amongst its membership. Recently Mr Keen has been an advisor  to the CEO and Board of a leading TV technology manufacturer, and has consulted  at board-level to a UK broadcaster Plc, a large entertainment retailer, a top 5  games publisher, a leading silicon vendor, a major public broadcaster, and the  UK Film Council.</p>
  <p align="left">In 2009, he also became a guest lecturer at the National Film &amp; TV  School, the Cass  Business School,  and the Media Business School.</p>
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<h3>Keiichi Kubota </h3>
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  <p align="left"><strong>Director-General, Japan Broadcasting Corporation Science and  Technology Research Laboratories (NHK STRL), Japan</strong></p>
  <p align="left">    Keiichi Kubota joined Japan Broadcasting Corporation in  1976.Since August 1980, he had been with the Science and Technology Research  Laboratories of NHK, working in the areas of satellite transmission systems of  HDTV, signal processing for HDTV. From 1989 through 1993, he was the Senior  Scientist at NHK's New York Office. During this period he participated in  various HDTV standardization activities in SMPTE, ATSC, and the FCC Advisory  Committee on ATV Service. In 1993, he was transferred to NHK Laboratories as  the Senior Research Scientist, and later the Deputy Director of Advanced  Television Systems Research Division, where he was in charge of research  activities in digital coding of HDTV. In 1996 he was transferred to the  Planning Division of the Engineering Administration Department where he was  responsible for starting NHK's digital satellite broadcasting service. From  2001 through 2005, he was the Director of Planning and Coordination Division,  and then the Deputy Director-General of the Laboratories. From 2005 through  2007 he was in charge of the nationwide rollout of NHK’s terrestrial digital  broadcasting services serving as Engineering Controller for the Engineering  Administration Department. Currently, he is the Director-General of the NHK  Science and Technology Research Laboratories. He received his B.S. and Ph.D.  degrees from the University   of Tokyo in 1976 and1987  respectively, and is a fellow of SMPTE and IEEE.</p>
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<h3>Mark Richer </h3>
<blockquote><div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Mark Richer.jpg" alt="Mark Richer" width="100" /></div>
  <p align="left"><strong>President, Advanced Television Systems  Committee, Inc (ATSC), USA</strong></p>
  <p align="left">    Mark S. Richer is the President of the Advanced  Television Systems Committee, Inc (ATSC). The ATSC is an international,  non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television.  The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment,  motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and  semiconductor industries. The ATSC DTV Standard has been adopted by the United States, Canada,  Mexico, South Korea and Argentina.</p>
  <p align="left"> Mr. Richer was Vice President &amp; General Manager , CDS  a division of Thomcast Communications (now Thales). While at Thomcast, he  created and managed Comark Digital Services, providing consulting, design and  turnkey services for broadcast television stations making the conversion to  digital technology. He was also responsible for marketing, communications,  strategic planning and business development for Thomcast Communications,  including its Comark and Comwave subsidiaries.<br />
    Mr. Richer first joined the ATSC after 16 years with the  Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) where, as Vice President of Engineering &amp;  Computer Services, he was responsible for development of new technologies for  PBS and its member stations, design of audio/video systems, and management of  computer operations. He was instrumental in the development of technological  innovations, including the Line 21 closed captioning for the deaf system for  which PBS was awarded an Emmy for Engineering Development. He was also  responsible for the selection and implementation of digital video compression  and transmission technology and led PBS efforts in the area of digital and high  definition television.</p>
  <p align="left"> Prior to joining PBS in 1979, Mr. Richer worked in  various engineering positions in both commercial and instructional television  as well as for a major video/film production facility. Mr. Richer served as  Chairman of the System Subcommittee Working Party on Test and Evaluation for  the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service. In this position, he  was responsible for testing proponent ATV systems, including that of the  digital HDTV Grand Alliance. He is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture  and Television Engineers (SMPTE), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical  and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and serves on the Board of Directors of the  ATSC Forum. Mr. Richer has been profiled in Worth and Broadcasting &amp; Cable  magazines.</p>
  <p align="left"> Mr. Richer was chairman of the Cable Television Advisory  Commission for the City of Alexandria, Virginia from 1994-1995. He holds two  patents, and has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Rochester Institute of  Technology.</p>
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<h3>Lieven Vermaele </h3>
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  <div class="fobLeftImg fobImg"><img src="../images/Lievenn Vermaael.jpg" alt="Mark Richer" width="100" /></div><p align="left"><strong>Technical Director, the European  Broadcasting Union (EBU), EU</strong></p>
  <p align="left">  Lieven Vermaele began his career at VRT, the Belgian,  Flemish, broadcaster, where he worked on the broadcaster's digital roadmap with  a focus on transmission, ICT, digital radio and television and new media  projects. In particular, he played a key role in developing and planning the digital  future of VRT.<br />
    After six years with VRT, he moved to Alcatel-Lucent,  from where he now joins the EBU.</p>
  <p align="left"> Lieven Vermaele was born in Gent (Belgium) in  1975. He obtained his &ldquo;Master of Science in Engineering&rdquo; from the University of Gent, and pursued several post-graduate  studies.</p>
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<h3>Wenjun Zhang </h3>
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    <img src="../images/Wenjun Zhang.jpg" alt="Mark Richer" width="100" />
  </div><p align="left"><strong>Chief Scientist, National  Engineering Research  Center of Digital Television  (NERC-DTV), China</strong></p>
  <p align="left">    Dr. Wenjun Zhang received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.  degrees in electronic engineering from Shanghai  Jiao Tong  University, Shanghai, China,  in 1984, 1987 and 1989, respectively and is a fellow of IEEE.</p>
  <p align="left"> From 1990 to 1993, He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at  Philips Kommunikation Industrie AG in Nuremberg,   Germany, where  he was actively involved in developing HD-MAC system. He joined the Faculty of  Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1993 and became a full professor in the  Department of Electronic Engineering in 1995. As the project leader, he  successfully developed the first Chinese HDTV prototype system in 1998. He was  one of the main contributors to the Chinese Digital Television Terrestrial  Broadcasting Standard issued in 2006. He holds more than 37 patents and published  more than 90 papers in international journals and conferences.</p>
  <p align="left"> Prof. Zhang’s main research interests include digital  video coding and transmission, multimedia semantic processing and intelligent  video surveillance. He is the vice president for Research of Shanghai Jiao Tong  University and the Chief Scientist of the Chinese Natioanal Engineering  Research Centre of Digital Television, an industry/government consortium in DTV  technology research and standardization.</p>
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